The Butler weekly times., 1887-12-28
CRUNB PICKER.

SoA poAty Aiso WV NANA AssooA
party, was performed by the Republi-
can, the great weight of conducting
the party affairs in Bates county has
devolved upon the Record. That
Austin fully appreciates the enormi-
ty of the task is evident from his
early and vicious attack upon the
democratic members of the county
court in the last issue of the Record.
The fact, that he was airing little
personal spleen will make the average
reader look upon his accusations with
grain of allowance.
The Record accuses the democratic
members of the court of being OPP
posed to retrenchment and reform in
public expenditures, because they de
cided to give what little printing
there was to the democratic papers.
Will any democrat in Bates county,
or, for that matter, any liberal, fair
minded republican, say they did
wrong in that act' Mr.. Austin went
before the court like whipped cur,
and begged for crumb, and because
the court said him nay, he snarls and
snaps like starving dog over the loss
of bone. Judges John III. Sullens
and T. J. Boswell need no defense at
our hands of the course they pursu-
ed in this matter. In the recording
of their votes it left record that any
democrat might be proud to emulate.
In it's arraignment of the court
the Record fails to make mention of
the time when the county court let
the printing to the lowest bidder,
and Mr.. Austin, as proprietor of the
only republican paper in the county,
pooled with the only other paper,
and the court had to giye them the
work at their own price and that too
when the public printing was worth
something. Judge Sullens held
the same office then that he does now.
And also the time when the Record
published the delinquent list for the
county, and charged $17OO for the
same, and paid the Globe Democrat
$75 for doing the work.
Another item. The court issued
a warrant to Sid Franklin for two
hundred dollars for guarding the
Jail. What do our tax payers think
Of this?'
Our tax payers think that the
court but allowed an account which
MIR. Franklin could have forced them
to pay, by law. The law makes pro-
visions for guard when the county
Jail is insecure, and if Mr.. Austin
had taken the pains to examine the
circuit court records he would have
found that both sheriffs Simpson and
Hanks were allowed guards, not only
one but at times three or four. And
furthermore Judge Clark Wix, the
republican member of the court, voted
with Judge Sullens to allow this &C
count, Judge Boswell being absent
from the court room at the time.
What do the tax payers think of
that."
Yes, this is the same democratic
| court that took charge of the county
| affairs when a republican court had
sunk the county over sixty thousand
dollars III debt. ferreted out the de
falcations of a republican sheriff and
collected over fifteen thousand dol
lars off Of his bondsmen; and Mr.
Austins paper was the mouth-piece
of that same old court which le;
wooden bridges for the enormous
sums of fifteen thousand dollars, is
sued railroad bonds upon the town.
ships and became so notoriously cor
rupt that such honest men as Johr
Atkinson and II. S. Cowles. deserted
the party and helped to defeat them
But did their mouth-piece (the Rec
ord) discover and expose thess
frauds' Not one, for It's editor, 0
D, Austin, the present reformer, wa:
living off the fst of the land.
| It is at all times disagreeable tt
go into grave yard and dig up th.
bones and putrid remains of the Ions
departed dead, but if ii become.
necessary for the sanitary p-otectio,